If any of you have ever sat and watched a live NFL game this year, you are well aware that the new big thing is daily fantasy drafts. Who has time to sit around for a full season anymore to gloat to your friends on how little they know about pigskin? Not us, that’s who! So, I logged in to DraftKings.

Gleaning information from ad-hoc data, answering those questions that create incredible value for an organization has never been easier than when using the innovative approaches provided by Spotfire.

TIBCO Spotfire is a powerful tool that supports the analysis and visualization of ad-hoc data. In this series of posts, we are going to dig into how we can bring subsurface data into Spotfire and then leverage it to solve canonical problems with an innovative and novel tool set.

In 2013, I began working as a data analyst for Ruths Analytics and Innovations, a startup data science company in Houston, focusing primarily on Oil and Gas clients. I was looking for something different, and it was, considering I had been previously developing business intelligence solutions for federal agencies in DC.